Anand Rajaraman has a great post on Datawocky with an overview of the various approaches to data analysis using Map/Reduce, and they ways in which this paradigm is bridged with RDBMSes by AsterData and Greenplum, and the Pig project. Don’t miss the comments from people directly responsible for these technologies, as well as Facebook’s Hive.
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